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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to periods of customer curtailment for multifamily |
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properties during rolling blackouts. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 38.074. ROLLING BLACKOUTS. The commission by rule |
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shall require each electric utility, municipally owned utility, and |
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electric cooperative that is subject to a rolling blackout |
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initiated by an independent organization certified under Section |
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39.151 or another reliability council or power pool in which the |
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utility or cooperative operates to rotate customer curtailment so |
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that no part of the distribution system that serves a multifamily |
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property with more than 25 units is subject to an outage of more |
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than 6 hours. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |